NYC Metro Raging Grannies and Their Daughters
Songs to sing at Occupy Wall Street
Corporations Run the World
(Tune: “California Here We Come”) Words by Sunny Armer and Corinne Willinger,
with technical help from Susan Lee
Corporations here they come,
causing pandemonium.
Supreme Court, rewards them,
and lets them expand.
And now that, they’re unleashed,
our elec-tions they’ll com-mand.
They can make us cower more.
They can buy their power more.
All their greed can flower more.
Corporations run the world.
Great big banks are here to stay,
Wall Street firms won’t go away.
They’re better, than human;
can’t go to jail.
And Congress, preserves them,
saying they’re too big to fail.
Elections should not be bankrolled
By companies with lots of gold.
Votes should not be bought and sold.
Corporations run the world.
Haliburton, here it comes,
causing pandemonium.
TransOcean, and BP,
drilled for more oil:
They flooded, the whole Gulf,
and now all life there is despoiled so
We must stop their power now,
Stop their oily shower now,
Make this their last hour now.
Let the people run the world!
Jobs are going up in smoke.
States and towns are going broke,
Our highways, and bridges,
need major repairs,
But Congress, insists that,
they haven’t got a buck to spare.
Make corporations pay their share,
And tax every billionaire;
Our deficit will disappear,
Let the people run the world!
Good News! Occupy Wall Street’s a-Coming
(Tune: “Good News! Chariot's a-Coming”)
Lyrics Alice Sutter of the NYC Metro Raging Grannies
Good news! # # Occupy Wall Street’s a-coming!
Good news! # # Occupy Wall Street’s a-coming!
Good news! # # Occupy Wall Street’s a-coming!
And you don't want us to leave you behind!
If you can't pay mortgage, student loan or rent
Welcome to the ninety-nine percent!
Don't you want to know
where all the money went?
You don't want us to leave you behind!
Good news! # # Occupy Wall Street’s a-coming!
Good news! # # Occupy Wall Street’s a-coming!
Good news! # # Occupy Wall Street’s a-coming!
And you don't want us to leave you behind!
If you're a p’lice officer facing pension cuts
Are you sure we're the ones
who you want to lock up?
Why not arrest corporate criminals
stealin' our bucks?
You don't want us to leave you behind!
Good news! # # Occupy Wall Street’s a-coming!
Good news! # # Occupy Wall Street’s a-coming!
Good news! # # Occupy Wall Street’s a-coming!
And you don't want us to leave you behind!
If you like to breathe the air and drink water too,
Occupy Wall Street is the place for you!
Stop the toxic corporate greed
and let the earth renew!
You don't want us to leave you behind!
Good news! # # Occupy Everywhere’s a-coming!
Good news! # # Occupy Everywhere’s a-coming!
Good news! # # Occupy Everywhere’s a-coming!
(slow) And you don't want us to leave you behind!
ENDLESS WARS
(Tune: “We Shall Not Be Moved” )
words: Pam Drake, NYC Metro Raging Grannies
We, shall not pay for Endless Wars;
We, shall not pay for Endless Wars.
We’ll pay for jobs and health and education,
Not for Endless Wars!
We don’t want Obama; fighting Endless Wars,
We don’t want Obama; fighting Endless Wars,
We should all tell the pres-i-dent
at whitehouse- dot -gov !
No more Endless Wars!
Congress, work on health care,
not for Endless Wars;
Congress, work on new jobs,
not for Endless Wars.
We want to work, on opportunities at home,
Not for Endless Wars!
Let’s all work together, home from Endless Wars,
Let’s all work together, home from Endless Wars,
We should bring all
the troops home from those wars right now!
No more Endless Wars!
NO MORE Endless WARS!!!
No More! (Song for the Occupations)
(Tune: "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep")
Lyrics by Vicki Ryder of the SoFlo Grannies
This is the day we say "no more,"
No more bailouts and no more war,
No more killin' on foreign shores,
Today we say no more!
We've been workin' for the day
When workin' folk rise up and say:
Tax the rich and make them pay!
Today we say no more!
You bankers and you CEOs,
You used us all to make your dough.
Your time is up, you've got to go!
Today we say no more!
With our sweat and with our toil,
You've raped the earth, the sea and soil,
So you could sell your bloody spoils.
Today we say no more!
Today we pledge to occupy
This land you think that you can buy.
You've robbed us blind, you've bled us dry.
Today we say no more!
We've been cheated, we've been booed,
By the cops we've been abused.
Now we're tired of bein' screwed!
Today we say - NO - MORE!
Follow the Money/Bail Out the People
Tune: “Beer Barrel Polka” aka “Roll Out the Barrel” Lyrics by Vicki Ryder
(Rochester/South Florida Raging Grannies) , r by Corinne Willinger
Follow the money, to see why we go off to war,
Follow the money,
it’s not freedom we’re fighting for,
Follow the money,
it leads to those corporate whores,
They’ve gone and bombed the Iraqis
So Halliburton can get more.
Pfizer and Wal-Mart, Bechtel and Citigroup, too,
Reap all the profits and don’t give a fig about you!
While folks go hungry in Miami and New Orleans,
They’re at home counting their money
To support their war machine.
Follow the money – it all leads to corporate greed.
The poor and the homeless,
when will they get what they need?
Big money interests, dictate our nation’s war plans.
It’s time now to take back our country
And give folks a helping hand.
Foreclosures are rising
and more folks are now unemployed.
Whatever happened
to the land of the free we enjoyed?
It’s time for the people
to rise up and now take a stand!
Let’s get out and bail out the people,
Then we’ll shout it: “Yes, we can!”
Bail out the people
and give them the jobs that they need.
To hell with the bankers
who suffer from terminal greed.
We’ve got to stop them,
and all those who profit from war.
Yes, we will follow the money!
Let’s buy peace instead of war!
OWS Solidarity Forever!
(Tune: "Battle Hymn of the Republic") Originally by Ralph Chaplin, Revised by
Susan Lee and Mercy Van Vlack of the NYC Metro Raging Grannies
Is there aught we hold in common
with the greedy parasite,
Who would lash us into serfdom
and would crush us with his might?
Is there anything left to us
but to organize and fight?
Occupy Wall Street makes us strong!
Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Occupy Wall Street makes us strong!
They have taken untold millions
that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle
not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power,
gain our freedom when we learn
Occupy Wall Street makes us strong!
Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Occupy Wall Street makes us strong!
In our hands is placed a power
greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies,
magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world
from the ashes of the old
Occupy Wall Street makes us strong!
Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Occupy Wall Street makes us strong!
Occupy Everywhere - makes – us - strong!
I’ve Always Paid My Taxes
(Tune: “The Yellow Rose of Texas”)
Lyrics: Santa Cruz WILPF Raging Grannies; adapted by Sunny Armer of the NYC
Metro RGs, 3/21/09
I’ve always paid my taxes, I paid them right on time,
I never even cheated, I coughed up every dime.
But now I know my money goes, To bail out A-I-G
So they can hand out bonuses! I’m mad as I can be.
I used to think my taxes went,
For things that made us great,
Like schools and roads and health care,
And grand affairs of state.
But now I know they’re giving dough,
To thieves who steal us blind,
So I demand my money back,
From pockets too well lined.
Tell Congress that your taxes, Were not for CEOs,
But giving jobs to workers,
Who need much more of those.
Let’s reach into those pockets, And with-out any fuss.
Shake all of our tax dollars out,
And make them work for us!
Where Does Taxpayer Money Go? – NYS (Tune: What Can the Matter Be?)
Lyrics: Sunny Armer of the Westchester Raging Grannies
Where does taxpayer money go?
Where does taxpayer money go?
Where does taxpayer money go?
The working class should have a say.
The Governor makes us feel like weak beseechers
Because we want schools
to have lots of good teachers.
Our hospital buildings
should have the best features.
Give us Fair Share Tax Reform!
Where does taxpayer money go?
Where does taxpayer money go? ( 3x )
Where does taxpayer money go?
The working class should have a say.
The workers pay taxes but so should their bosses.
If the rich paid their share,
we would cut all our losses.
Don’t dump our good programs,
please hold back your horses!
Give us Fair Share Tax Reform.
Fair, Share, Reform dot com!
An Essay on Taxes
(Tune: “Frere Jacques”) words by Corinne Willinger of the NYC Metro Raging
Grannies
No Taxation, Free vacation,
For rich slobs; Not-for the mobs;
US debt amasses, While poor and middle classes
Lose their jobs, Lose their jobs.
Pause Words: Irene Sadek NYC Metro RGs
Eleven million, eleven million.
Dollars per hour, dollars per hour!
That is what the war costs,
And look at all that’s been lost.
Bring the troops home. Bring the troops home!
Words: Sunny Armer of the Westchester RGs, r by Corinne 10/2011
Our taxes are unending. Cuomo wants spending
To be cut. What gets cut?
Hospitals & schoo-ools! We demand new ru-ules:
Fair Share Tax Reform,
Fair, Share, Reform dot com!
